by local security forces which contain drug addicts and those connected to the taliban despite this nato began handing control over one of the country's thirty four provinces to the locals on sunday but there is concern they are too divided on trade and ill equipped to fend off the insurgency by themselves jason model of reports from kabul. there's confusion on the faces of the afghan army soldiers as a firefight unfolds on the other side of the wall lucky for them this is the kabul military training center in the bullets being fired blanks the men here halfway through a ten week program and the officers don't cut the many slack when it's over the be deployed eastern province one of afghanistan's most violent corners. but we must push them hard so they can perform under pressure day by day we're making progress the afghan national army has already come a long way its ranks have swollen to about one hundred seventy thousand troops thanks to fresh waves of recruits attracted by higher wages and extra perks the soldiers insist they are all united in their desire to beat back the taliban led

insurgency regardless of age or ethnicity then in yarmouth we are old brothers and we are all called by one name. by the call of duty is also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever class of woman soldiers has just graduated. and there is even a mujahedeen unit made up of hardened veterans of the anti soviet jihad this is all good news to u.s. military planners who have set a two thousand and fourteen deadline to hand over security responsibilities to the afghans the afghan army enjoys a much better reputation in the police force and has even been featured recently. but as the army takes greater responsibility for security around the country there are concerns that the quantity of troops may be coming at the expense of quality for starters more than eighty percent of troops are illiterate a big problem with the ability to read maps and numbers can spell the difference between life and adding to the woes are widespread drug use and desertions today roughly one in four combat soldiers quit their post critics also point out that the

military leadership is made up of many rival ex warlords who still command loyalties along regional and ethnic lines and could drag the country deeper into conflict as the u.s. begins to scale back its role as custodian this summer there are concerns that these divisions may flare up if i start usually. ninety's. killing each of the. people. of the two groups who control. yet another obstacle for a young army that still has much to prove before it can stand. for to. the us may be on the move from afghanistan but it's not going far it's next focus is neighboring pakistan which has long been so are in the side of the war on terror was insurgents they are often seven nato supply lines are just military contributor thinks the only way america can save face in afghanistan is to rekindle its islam

of ties. they u.s. congressman hunter warns that united states is seriously considering several options including the direct and kinetic intervention of the u.s. forces into pakistan to do decisively with the taliban and hog a network training camps which were the same that the united states were so actively helping and assisting pakistan to wage their anti-suffrage jihad in afghanistan using the same mujahedeen proxy force led and trained by pakistani intelligence which was actively supported by their american partners what happens right now in afghanistan is neither war no peace in reality the american occupation is completely bogged down and the spare allies sound where in the twilight zone between war and peace now the u.s. lawmakers facing a very serious dilemma on the one side they're eager to blackmail pakistan we have

the united states military intervention on the other side there are acutely aware that the time has come for the united states to pack up and go home from afghanistan and to be exposed to the accusations that america exit plan is just cut and run so the only face saving opportunity right now for the united states to leave afghanistan ease to rebuild that credibility gap pakistan and to get a permit for u.s. forces to read employment for him afghanistan to pakistan the swamp land reach i introduced a couple of weeks ago could help the united states to avoid making the impression they'd just cut and run from afghanistan and on the other side it would mean they gave their respects widening then militarist hostilities for a member again to stand to pakistan and be. and in a few minutes on our key the green card immigrants who are now seeing red after

winning america's citizenship lottery they're now being told to their new lives and tell you why. one of the last world war two era war crimes suspect is due to learn his fate we report from hungary. the resignations keep coming in the british newspaper phone hacking scandal now that the u.k.'s most senior police officer has quit sir paul stephenson was facing a growing backlash over hiring a former news of the world executive as an advisor it was later questioned about illicit phone tapping the axe police commissioner also took a swipe at the prime minister saying it's choice of advisor was a worst decision namely former editor andy colson and a day of rapid developments from back ran the paper and was arrested as part of the investigation she quit on friday. and is due to join him and his son james facing m.p.'s on tuesday over an ethical reporting methods and police bribery media

analyst filreis says paying off a service organization has been going on for years. this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using a receipt been leaking they've been paid for telling people where celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the people is actually a practice that has become in trying to in my view as a result of the kind of brought everything so this would hardly be out of practice but i don't think it's going to deflect opinion i mean there are so many m.p.'s now and indeed so much of the british establishment which for so long kowtow to murdoch is now prepared to get to the bottom of this and those people who have been corrupted at different levels remember that four years ago right the police had these bags with i think it was a live one thousand live through this about four thousand celebrities and victims of crime and all these other people and they knew they were taking part investigations. these bags were just left there i mean it's amazing it's remarkable

that it took four years for them to do anything about this meanwhile senior police officers were wining and dining with members of the murdoch empire they were they were making them for drinks privately one even at a thousand pounds a day to work for him so you know what does this tell us about the relationship between the police and the news corp employees well it's very very serious and if this can happen at the top of the police look at the example that gives to officers down down the lines now you could well you know can any organization properly examine itself but so much is at stake that if that operation is seen to be corrupted as well i think we've got you know an even bigger problem i think so many people now are watching it including you know members of parliament select committees these are investigative bodies within the british political system they're all all eyes are on this let alone all the journalists who are looking at what's going on so i think that the ramifications of this is so big i mean you know britain is it's shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking

who's next the timing out the back of brooks arrest is raising a few eyebrows former british intelligence officer and he was shines as it's more than a kill when students. it's very unusual to have someone that's close to the heart the heart of power in the u.k. being arrested but i suppose based on the prima factual evidence around this case it would be unavoidable for the police not to arrest having said that of course it is a very long journey from arrest to being charged to being put on trial into being convicted so i suppose i'd be more surprised if she were charged if this does proceed towards a legal hearing i have to say that i think is the timing of this arrest is very interesting because it's highly highly unusual for someone to be a prearranged arrest to turn themselves into a police station and go through the rest process on a sunday and of course is just two days before she was due to appear before a parliamentary committee so no way she's going to sort of get out of jail free card i can't possibly talk about this is subject to legal proceedings so in a way i suppose one hundred slightly suspicious turn of mind one might think that

the police taking this step at this stage. allowing her little wriggle room i shouldn't have to say too much and so would have to say too much about the leaks of the police service in london as well so it's very very interesting timing. the cruiser that sank it of all days due to be lifted later on monday once the vessel is moved off its side of what is one of the operations most difficult stages tam's to put the ship on an even keel resumed after a balancing sling ruptured on sunday the next task is to search the riverbed for fifteen missing victims and then raise the boat twenty meters to the surface investigators and relatives hope then that definitive answers can be found as to why the ship sank the recovery crews say the work is complicated because the vessel is stuck in the silt at the bottom of the volga the whole garia went down in minutes leaving more than half of the two hundred eight passengers with no chance to escape one of russia's worst ever water disasters.

aarti dot com is closely following the recovery operation and has a bad ground to the tragedy so keep up to date there's also our you tube channel for all of our video reports of a salvage mission russia's north caucasus has been shaken by two deadly blasts in the chechen republic two policemen were killed and seven more injured when an explosion hit a special search operation in the mountainous region meanwhile in overnight blessed and down has left another two policemen dead and three people wounded at the roadside bomb detonated as a patrol car was driving through the city of speech the blast also damaged a gas pipeline disrupting the city's supplies early reports suggest that explosion was equivalent to six kilos of t.n.t. we'll bring you more developments in the region as we get them. out of the last remaining nazi war crimes suspect will soon learn his fate in a garion court ninety seven year old dorothy pirro is charged with the massacre of

killing civilian hostages in serbia he was discovered living in budapest in two thousand and six as one of the few left to stand trial for holocaust crimes first reports from hungary. it's been described as the world's most wanted nazi now he stands accused of the participation in the new tourist massacre in the city of no he said in one thousand nine hundred eighty one thousand two hundred jewish and serbian people were killed by him carrion forces now the prosecution say that though he's directly responsible for the deaths of thirty six jewish people thirty thing were put in a lorry and driven away to be shot the courts already been adjourned he complained that he couldn't understand what was being said and the judge in the trial said that he wasn't sure other this you know was even fully aware of what was going on and so in a german with schools an order for him to receive a hearing a mental health assessment and that is being restarted in the verdict expected to

be delivered today that he's one of the last remaining suspected war criminals he was tried and convicted in one thousand nine hundred eighty four but that conviction was quashed off to the fascist government came into power in the same year the defense here is saying that according to hunger in law you can't convict someone of the same offense twice the prosecution is saying that doesn't stand up as his previous acquittal was due to political considerations and not evidence now just a few months ago in may we saw the child of evander when you come to an end he was sentenced to five years and the prosecution in this case has said that they've been pushing for that prisoner sentence and that's certainly going to be the verdict that they're hoping for today. so for reporting there let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world libyan rebels are carrying out an assault on government forces in the eastern town of bragg home to one of the country's biggest oil facilities nato has also been targeting procrit off the

forces in the area with days of intense bombardment the alliance is trying to muster support for the rebels who have suffered heavy losses in recent days. and other defined speech at the weekend denying rumors he was leaving libya as he struggles to quell the months long revolt. more lethal clashes in syria this time between pro and anti-government protesters around thirty are thought to have died as she as the fighting worsened when people began using my arms against each other last week three supporters of president alassane were kidnapped and killed and their dismembered bodies returned to their relatives the anti-government damask rags downs are thought to have killed over thirteen hundred people since they began in january. idjit interim leaders have undertaken a massive government reshuffle after a public anger over a slow post-revolutionary for most of the women's are two relative newcomers who

are not linked with the regime of leader hosni mubarak there are also conflicting reports about the president's health this lawyer says mubarak is in a coma which doctors deny. but as well as president has transferred some powers to his ministers while he returns to cuba for cancer treatment experts warned that this is health issues could seriously affect the political situation in the country. the problem here being that he's regina counseled a lot of internal and external opposition for centuries notably funded and supported politically economically and eventually even militarily baby united states of america and the united states is clearly. making its regina change policies which we are seeing now in north africa and in the middle east bring them over to latin america so from the i'm speaking from when i was in argentina i'm particularly concerned that hugo chavez's health problems will debilitate will

weaken the present government in venezuela and that can be seen as an opportunity by the united states or rather by the global power elite that operate from the united states to promote routine change in venezuela and if it starts in venezuela it will no doubt spread to other countries notably ecuador bolivia and perhaps even argentina now ask us how will telescope has been a space watching workhorse for two lonely decades but now it gets to share the job of revealing the universe's biggest mysteries of russian i in the sky is on its way to help out packing the sharpest tools in the known galaxy and often i was at the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakstan to see. this is the moment to russian space scientists have been waiting for for decades the space observatory it creaked with the cutting edge telescope a huge top and universe explore ation as an enormous i will be able to see further and deeper than ever before it with the possible to observe the most mysterious the

doc has. the most shadowed corners of our galaxy and other galaxies as well and stars even it will be able to observe black holes and shed light on their dog nature these huge enormous i will be able to provide detailed images detailed pictures of the universe with a resolution ten thousand times shop within america's hobble so we can see something is happening as well i'll let you enjoy the moment. because it's this was. gone. and i'm sick really. going to stop it now tony ready to strong when i go

to the call center here in the summer time. but i do a strong to unfold it's twenty seven and make everything ready to work with a nine month old to we will start to receive the first results means the first name is of the universe from that day and by could hope we have been able to speak to the had a russian space agency was called must. and he believes that this mission which is expected to last five years is something all humankind will be able to benefit from. regional should not potty reported from baikonur. while the telescope takes its place russia's space agency boss tells r.t. the next hour what he hopes. for in scientists not the russian ones seven or telescope is more interesting than the hubble space telescope in terms of making new findings it's a very profound science that implies

a high degree of relativity of the final result it's difficult to forecast anything here but telescope makes it possible to monitor the emergence of new stars and galaxies in a radio frequency band to see how the whole process goes on gov of some statistical dance on the basis of which it would be possible to predict the dynamics of development of our comment on the universe and to understand where we have all come from is waiting for us in the future in this respect this is a historical event which marks russia's return to space science. it can be tough getting a green card to live in america but average hero walk a few thousand randomly hit the jackpot or so they thought a courts ruled the latest lottery a list just isn't arbitrary enough and is tearing out they migrants and art is going to stick out explains. hoping for

a better life in america. from nigeria applied for the green card lottery he won or so it said in the letter that he received from the state department almost two weeks later the u.s. voided the results of the lottery for some twenty two thousand people including a war that i want to lots and for a four star and a lottery. it's one from each year the u.s. state department grants green cards to some fifty thousand people from around the globe the lottery where the jackpot is the right to live and work in america is advertised as completely random the state department claims in this case there was a computer glitch and the results were not arbitrary a computer programming error caused more than ninety percent of the selectees to come from the first two days of the registration period the victims of the blunder have joined in a class action suit against the u.s. state department and lost the court here has been struggling with the issue of

randomness asking how could the result of the green card lottery not be random even if there had been a computer glitch as the state department claims one of the arguments is that even an era like that could produce a random result and the whole idea behind the green card lottery is that whoever you are whatever you do you can win it but this case could very well undermine that perception experts specializing in information technology say the decision of the state department as well as the court that dismissed the case defies simple logic rhonda means that if all records if all the tracks are on your cd player when you hit the run you may get tracks three four and five and track twelve that's still random the state department has brought up intricate technical arguments to explain the blunder but thousands of its victims say they have the feeling that someone has gambled with their lives we believe that america. going to shut down our t.v.

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and welcome to your business bulletin i met treasurer good to have you with us european banks start the week in a mixed mood most are relieved at passing the stress test but there are still wide open to sovereign shock from bad debt in the u.s. in europe investment analysts are those things that could open doors for russian lenders. the german banks in particular were exposed to toxic assets in the united states. the german banks for example were exposed to iceland they had nineteen billion dollars of exposure to iceland. and the irish banks the english banks are also not feeling very well. the. u.s. banks are still suffering from their exposure to toxic assets so within they say area within the euro asian market the russian banks which has gone

through the crisis relatively well are actually in a position. with cash to go out and spend money and buy up. relatively good assets in europe and so this purchase by spurred by of international is a first step and we may see some of the commercial banks. following suit doing the same sort of thing. taking a look at the markets now all is lower with investors concerned about a worsening debt crisis in europe may slow the economy and way on fuel demand. in asia the hang seng is slipped into the red in the last hour of trading its earlier gains were helped by a report showing home prices rose in china and china mainland stocks were higher while europe related stocks came under pressure japanese markets were closed for a public holiday. here in moscow the markets of open mics the r.t.s. it is losing around two tenths of a percent while the my six is a tenth of

a percent in the black. industrial output is speeding up into russia it grew almost six per cent in june year on year compared to four percent in may car production is a key driver with the sector benefiting from higher demand and investment activity analysts expect even faster growth in the coming months amid low interest rates and cooling inflict. it appears russian tourists are happy to splash the cash abroad as much as splashing about on the beach citibank says holidaymakers spending outside the country grew twenty eight percent year on year to one hundred forty million dollars that's the highest level since two thousand and seven with russians mostly preferring to spend their vacation cash in the u.s. italy and great britain. general impression that russia has bonds back to pre-crisis the dinner impression the you know was close to full particularly the range of the pretty much stable microeconomic situation in russia people feel more

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campaign and aid to and taken out the rebels have only hardened political facts something. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms of russia. we've got the future covered. measure disciplinary on. education. worst so could the penitentiary system transform a criminal into a law abiding citizen. present life behind bars on our t.v. . wealthy british style it's time to rise. up and.

markets why not. one. what's really happening to the global economy is her report on our. own welcome back to join us you're watching r.t.m. these are the top stories the taliban take out another target on their nato collaborators list as foreign troops begin withdrawing while leaving a questionable local force in charge the afghan army is known for having numerous drug addicts and people lengths to insurgency. one bows out while another is bail the murdoch media misconduct seems britain's most senior policeman quit over connections to journalists suspected of bribery and phone happening while x. news international chief rebecca brooks is arrested. and a cosmic companion for the hubble telescope is russia's own eye in the sky gets

ready to seek out the secrets of our universe radio estragon boasts a much higher resolution than its nasa cousin. had lines peter lavelle's talk show crosstalk is coming out tell mr debate. if you can. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle libya's stalemate in the sand and nato bombing campaign and aid to anti kadafi rebels have only hardened political facts on the ground western intervention was intended to last

a few weeks now is open ended instead of dislodging khadafi nato allies are left to bicker among themselves. can. cross the nato mission in libya i'm joined by io johnson in london he is the founder and director of viewpoint africa also in london we have marco gas a key is a political analyst an expert on south east european affairs and in barcelona we cross to omar ashour he is a lecturer in politics of the modern arab world at the university of exit are all right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want omar and i to go to you first in barcelona how would you assess nato's operations in libya to date because depending on the news source you want to read it stalemate it's quagmire. we coming across reports of rebels committing human rights. violations they're not looking so pretty anymore.